Bowhead whales have thrived in Arctic waters for thousands of years. However, according to a new study from the University of ...

This discovery sheds new light on the survival strategies of coastal populations during the Paleolithic era. An international ...

This whale must have read the script and decided to play the lead in The Great Escape: Arctic Edition. Craig shared this clip of his thrilling bowhead whale hunt. ''We chased a whale for over a half ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...

Paleolithic humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of marine tool-making discovered.

In particular, the bones of sperm whales were found to be particularly popular in fashioning spears and other hunting instruments. Over 40 percent of projectile points and 73 percent of foreshafts ...

Large projectile point made of Gray Whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, Landes, France, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago.

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

hunting and habitat loss directly impede species adaptation. Has commercial whaling affected genetic variation in Arctic whales? That was the question we set out to answer for both bowhead whales ...

He was documenting the bowhead whale-hunting rituals of the Inupiaq people. And to do this, he camped with the Native hunters for weeks on Arctic ice—where temperatures stay below freezing and ...

It allows the tribe to hunt up to 25 Eastern North Pacific gray ... allowing them to kill bowhead whales — even though bowheads are listed as endangered. The Makah Tribe applied for a waiver ...

Bowhead whales, sometimes referred to as the Greenland right whales ... Nakimayak said that a plan for all parts of the hunt, including the sharing, will be completed before the hunt takes place.